xv, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Projects in Linguistics has been designed to assist students undertaking a piece of independent research for the first time. It introduces the most commonly used tools and techniques, and offers practical advice on how to research a topic

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-291) and index

Introduction : starting on the right foot -- pt. 1. Areas of study and project ideas. Psycholinguistics -- First-language acquisition and development -- Conversation analysis -- Second-language acquisition -- Style in texts -- Sociolinguistics -- Accents and dialects of English -- Structure and meaning -- Historical linguistics -- Language and gender -- pt. 2. Techniques for collecting data. Tape-recording data -- Experiments -- Questionnaires -- Interviews -- Observation and case studies -- pt. 3. Tools for data analysis and project writing. Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically -- Transcribing speech orthographically -- Using computers to study texts -- The Data Protection Act -- How to reference -- Plagiarism and how to avoid it -- Statistics -- Using an abstracting journal -- Handy hints on writing good academic English

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